Multicenter, prospective, randomized controlled trial providing mobile health supported physical rehabilitation to 120 patients who have been critically ill with COVID-19 and who complete at least one exercise session.
Primary diagnosis of COVID-19 requiring hospital admission
Discharged or expected to be discharged directly home from the hospital (not to a skilled nursing facility, inpatient rehabilitation center, or long-term acute care hospital)
Able to ambulate with or without a gait aid prior to hospital discharge
Age ≥ 18 years
Hospital discharge > 60 days unless readmitted to hospital in first 30 days, then 60 day window restarts and new exclusion is last hospital discharge > 60 days
Not ambulating independently prior to COVID-19 illness (use of a gait aid permitted)
Functional impairment resulting in inability to exercise at baseline
Inability or unwillingness to comply with the study requirements or unable or unwilling to follow coaching via mobile-health iPhone interaction
Duke University
Lead sponsor
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
Collaborator
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Collaborator
Ohio State University
Collaborator
University of Kentucky
Collaborator
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Collaborator
Florida Atlantic University
Collaborator